Wild Duck - M11

This is one of those images taken while waiting for the night's target to rise. This is a recent image of M11 to update an earlier image I had made. Image and exposure / processing details are at:

http://jthommes.com/Astro/M11.htm

C8 at f/4.8
Artemis285 IR/UV Block filter, RGB filters
G11/Gemini
Guiding - Megrez II 80 mm at 1350 mm FL, DSI Pro, PHD guiding

The earlier image is here:

http://jthommes.com/MiscAstro/Archives/M11.htm

Nice shot of this one Jim.

Really a vast improvement over your earlier version.


Jason

Very nice colors.....a sweet image of a tasty fowl. What were your subexposure and total exposure times?

A beautiful cluster nicely done!

Tom

Beautiful shot Jim! 8)

Hi Jim,

Terrific colors, and definitely a big improvement over the earlier shot. The stars look a touch soft to me, though. I'll admit that that piece of procesing is still a mystery to me: how to find that nice common ground where stars are in focus yet have a nice glow of color around them.

Eric

Thanks for the comments folks..

Michael Sandy said:

Very nice colors.....a sweet image of a tasty fowl. What were your subexposure and total exposure times?

Michael,
I did (12) 1 min subs for luminance and (8) 1 min subs for RGB - all 1x1 bin. Just 36 minutes total.